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  1. @FlossieTeacake Sorry to hear you're a bit blue! For Xmas woes: Tree delivery, online shopping, whisky firmly in hand and bottle close by.
  2. Robert Darnton in NYRB on alternatives to the Google Books project. National digital library, anyone? http://j.mp/6WJJFz
  3. Ebooks to become "a single computer which will mediate our lives: more undifferentiated text to match our own mood"? http://j.mp/7PtIFO
  4. Also...good lord do Lego trains sell out fast. Doing my best for the kiddo, but he's killing me...um Santa.
  5. Tree up and lights on. A night's work well done... Now for a drink and some more Mantel.
  6. Conservatives sk to excise 'liberal' lines, like 'Father, forgive them; for they know not..' frm Bible: http://bit.ly/8L69WM via @maudnewton
  7. @FlossieTeacake I would absolutely pay extra for an e-book version bundled w the print copy. Prefer the latter at home, former for commute.
  8. RT @indiaknight: Spike Jonze is at the Apple store in Regent St at 5.15 today, talking about Where the Wild Things Are.
  9. Beginning what's sure to be a leisurely stroll through Wolf Hall. Lugging this on the tube is a pretty good argument for an e-reader...
  10. RT @atebits: I'M DRUNK BITCHES TIME TO CODE
  11. Oh Happy day. Just realised Peet's ships to London. Regular shipments of Major Dickason's Blend starting now....
  12. RT @roncharles: Benedictine #monk digitalizing ancient #books to save them: http://bit.ly/4N1Pav by @JenHoward #tech #history #religion
  13. shit. RT @WSJ: Lawmakers reject a bill that would have made New York the sixth state to legalize gay marriage. http://bit.ly/5Kbthf
  14. Peter Stothard on the ed. we & M. Rubery's The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News http://j.mp/6F8KUk
  15. Skipping the company holiday party on this rainy London night. Couldn't bring myself to face it.... Home with cognac and Sumemrtime instead!
  16. TechCrunch gets a look at Time Inc’s “Manhattan Project”: It's a tablet magazine http://j.mp/8cScDt
  17. Stendahl's manuscripts online! Article: http://j.mp/5S1Bkx mss site: http://j.mp/4CuZjI
  18. Who killed John Keats? by John Barnard - TLS http://j.mp/7eSGqA
  19. Littel wins Bad Sex award for The Kindly Ones: "I could use my prick like a stake hardened in the fire" Oh my... http://j.mp/92fEkY
  20. @FlossieTeacake ha. Hit retweet instead if reply. Darn it. Cycling on Oxford is bad. Jump a block or two over, maybe Wigmore.